[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2528 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2528

   To clarify the authority of the United States Marshals Service to 
assist other Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies in the 
           investigation of cases involving missing children.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 25, 2014

Mr. Whitehouse (for himself and Mr. Sessions) introduced the following 
    bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To clarify the authority of the United States Marshals Service to 
assist other Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies in the 
           investigation of cases involving missing children.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Strengthening Investigations of 
Missing Children Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY OF THE UNITED STATES MARSHALS 
              SERVICE.

    Section 566(e)(1) of title 28, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by inserting after subparagraph (C), the following:
                    ``(D) assist State, local, and other Federal law 
                enforcement agencies, upon the request of such an 
                agency, in locating and recovering missing children.''.
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